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...sporting dispatch from Danville, Kentucky, last week brought nostalgia to the one-time followers of the Centre College Praying Colonels of Bo McMillan fame. It also calls to mind that only 30 years ago when Centre beat the Crimson, Harvard football was at the pinnacle of Big Time football. Times have changed for both colleges...
...Harold Rugg, emeritus professor of Columbia University's Teachers College, whose left-of-cen-ter textbooks have long been stirring a storm in U.S. public schools. No sooner had Rugg appeared than-two Ohio newspapers sounded the alarm. "Marxian doctrinaire," cried the Ohio State Journal. The Columbus Dispatch echoed: "A defiant and unabashed radical." The newspapers needled Ohio Governor Frank Lausche into requesting a trustee investigation of the charges, and in short order the trustees issued their edict...
Aside from the Journal and Dispatch, few voices rose to defend the trustees. The Ohio Education Association, the executive board of the state's C.I.O. Council, Roman Catholic Bishop Michael J. Ready of the Columbus Diocese, Methodist Bishop Hazen G. Werner, all felt that the board had acted in ill-considered haste...
According to an Associated Press dispatch, they estimated that if Congress authorized UMT by the end of March, the Armed Services could be ready to receive the first 13-year-old recruits by July...
According to an Associated Press dispatch, a UMT program starting off on a limited scale would involve training about 60,000 men annually. In full operation the system would mean that approximately 800,000 youths would get six months of training, then for the next seven and a half years be in a reserve component...